Applications Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 667 647
Rank change year-on-year +157 -20 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 65 88 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 65 78 61
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £47,875 £57,500
UK median annual salary £43,250 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.13% -11.11% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +79 27 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Midlands +51 17 £52,500 +84.21% 2
West Midlands +65 12 £52,500 +61.54% 1
East of England +56 10 £42,000 -1.18% 5
North of England +44 8 £35,349 -11.63% 11
Yorkshire +64 7 £35,000 -12.50% 8
East Midlands +1 5 £32,500 +14.04% 1
South West +107 2 £46,250 +27.59% 3
Wales +41 1 £45,000 -5.26% 1
North West -1 1 £35,698 -18.41% 2
Applications Support Engineer
UK

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Applications Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (83.08%) SQL
2 36 (55.38%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
5 18 (27.69%) ITIL
5 18 (27.69%) Linux
5 18 (27.69%) Azure
6 16 (24.62%) PowerShell
7 13 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 13 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (20.00%) Java
7 13 (20.00%) Windows
7 13 (20.00%) Python
8 12 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (18.46%) Power Platform
8 12 (18.46%) Power BI
9 11 (16.92%) PL/SQL
9 11 (16.92%) MySQL
9 11 (16.92%) SQL Server
9 11 (16.92%) AWS
10 10 (15.38%) Degree
10 10 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (13.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (13.85%) High Availability
11 9 (13.85%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (13.85%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (13.85%) Oracle
11 9 (13.85%) Middleware
12 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
12 8 (12.31%) ERP

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.31%) IIS
1 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (18.46%) Power Platform
4 11 (16.92%) AWS
5 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.23%) Serverless
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) FTP
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) Power BI
2 11 (16.92%) MySQL
2 11 (16.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) JUnit
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Retail
3 7 (10.77%) Local Government
4 6 (9.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.15%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) Middleware
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (9.23%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) EDI
3 2 (3.08%) Spring
3 2 (3.08%) XML
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.54%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.69%) Linux
2 13 (20.00%) Windows
3 7 (10.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (27.69%) ITIL
3 13 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 12 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (13.85%) High Availability
7 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.31%) ERP
7 8 (12.31%) Logistics
7 8 (12.31%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (10.77%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 7 (10.77%) Customer-Centricity
9 6 (9.23%) Cost Reduction
9 6 (9.23%) Customer Service
10 4 (6.15%) Agile
10 4 (6.15%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (6.15%) Mentoring
10 4 (6.15%) Service Management
10 4 (6.15%) User Experience
11 3 (4.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (83.08%) SQL
2 16 (24.62%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.00%) Java
3 13 (20.00%) Python
4 11 (16.92%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.31%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) HND
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) PCI DSS
1 6 (9.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) QA
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Ansible
1 1 (1.54%) SCCM
1 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Oracle
3 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Capita
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Freshdesk
5 1 (1.54%) Meraki
5 1 (1.54%) Progress